Havana - The 30th Contemporary Music Festival will take this capital with world melodies of the last decades and several premieres, its president, the Cuban maestro, and composer Guido López Gavilán, promised today.

Buenos Aires - Joy, tears of emotion and a closed ovation received here the premiere with a full theater of ''Luces y duendes'', a documentary about the renowned Cuban La Colmenita children''s theater company, directed by Argentine Luciana Mazza Toimil.

Paris - Cuba has had a broad participation at the 39th General Conference of UNESCO with an exhibition of the progress made in priority sectors such as Education and Higher Education.

Cubans celebrate Culture Day on Friday to commemorate October 20th, 1868, the date in which the country’s National Anthem was sung for the first time.

The Gala of the territory for the Day of Cuban Culture was dedicated to the most authentic of our spirituality, celebrated in the House of the Music, with samples of the work of the national poet Nicolás Guillén, the song The Commander arrived by Carlos Puebla, performed by Angerona group, as well as the verses of poets Héctor Montesinos and Enrique González.

Havana - City Council members of Tampa and St. Petersburg, businesspeople and Tampa Port Authorities, attend today a business meeting in Cuba.